On Monday evening, in the regional high school cafeteria, Ed Painter, a gray-haired chess master, faced off against a young Sam Grimm, who learned the game a couple of weeks ago.
The West Tisbury select board asked that the town affordable housing committee delay plans to bring a proposed affordable dwelling unit (ADU) funding program before voters.
Though often taking a backseat to quahaugs, scallops and oysters, the softshell clam fishery was once a valuable economic engine for a select group of local shellfishermen.
The typically raucous chatter of seamen was more nervous than usual at the Allen's Tavern in old Holmes Hole (modern Vineyard Haven), where Islanders gathered to hear news of a restive colonial mainland.
Vineyard Wind, the offshore wind farm under construction south of Martha's Vineyard, hopes to start generating power by the end of the year after completing five of its planned 62 wind turbines this week.
The land bank commission voted Monday to open the Caleb’s Pond Preserve, a three-acre strip of marsh and other habitat near the Chappy ferry that the land bank purchased in 2020. The opening is going forward without any of the planned waterfront access.